Will's Good Idea for the Week of 3/13/22

Damn spring ahead...

We'll start out with Will's Good Idea for the Week of 3/13/22. World War 1990: The Weser is divided into three parts, The Americans, The British, and The Confederates. For reasons unclear to this blog, lots of British action ended up in the Confederate part. We successfully amputated the Brit sections from part III and grafted them onto Part II, where they belong. We are among the very best at what we do.

We've teased from time to time that a British officer, Colonel Charles Carter, Queens Own Hussars, will give a pep talk that we lifted directly from Jack Charleton, coach of Ireland's 1990 Football World Cup Team. 'It's not going to be easy for us but it's not going to be easy for them either,' etc etc. Those interested may have a listen here, 'Put 'em Under Pressure.* 

Okay fine. But why does Carter all of the sudden grab the mic, in front of a BBC crew mind you, and tell the Hussars, 'This operation's about, being effective, being aggressive, winning the field getting on with the attack. We'll put e'm under pressure.' Why? When do we show why? And how?

[I thought you were among the best there is at what you do?-Ed]

I am.

[Well start proving it-Ed]

Iran launched ballistic missiles at the US Consulate in Erbil yesterday? So...like, what are we going to do about? We believe a new Iran deal is imminent, and the Iranians will boast, 'Look! We attacked the Great Satan and still got everything we wanted.' There will be war in the Middle East. 

Ukraine! Once more, this blog urges reader(s) to approach all information coming from Ukraine with great caution. The media narrative tells the story of brave, plucky Ukraine, a nation of happy warriors fighting the Russian bear led by the increasingly unstable Putin. Why would you believe the media narrative.

Network/cable news is silly and dated. These guys are reporting the war like it's 1991. That is, we see an anchor with a onion dome in the background breathlessly talking about rocket strikes or some such. This is all very Arthur Kent. Anything we've heard on CNN (our middle daughter likes it for Ukraine news and we admit it's not generally nauseating,) we already read online hours before. 

There's a lot of solid analysis on Twitter. Jomini of the West is doing some great work. Behold those maps. He thinks the Ruskis are doing very badly. We think the Ruskis are slowly advancing toward their objectives. We can both be right. 

*And now you know where all that anavallen and Oley-51 stuff in Nederland came from:

We're all part of Jackie's army

We're all off to Italy

And we'll really shake 'em up

When we win the World Cup

'Cause Ireland's got the greatest football team